AMD Radeon HD 8240 IGP vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8240 IGP and AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8240 IGP

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8240 IGP

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 60 Watt

Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 60 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Around 63% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
4.9x more texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
3.8x more pipelines: 480 vs 128
6.1x better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 102.4 gflops

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 128
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops vs 102.4 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8240 IGP
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8240 IGP	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1088
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1088
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1519
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1519
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2278
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2278

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8240 IGP	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Kalindi	Turks
Launch date	1 November 2013	25 October 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	1343
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	102.4 gflops	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	128	480
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz